Eduard Rauterberg

Eduard Rauterberg (born February 26, 1898 in Klein Wanzleben near Magdeburg, † November 16, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German agricultural chemist.

Rauterberg studied natural sciences at the University of Kiel from 1919 , where he obtained the Dr. phil. with a dissertation in the field of organic chemistry. From 1919 he was a member of the academic association "Krusenrotter Kneipe" (from 1924 fraternity of the Krusenrotter). After completing his doctorate , he stayed in Kiel, initially as an assistant at the Chemical Institute, and from 1925 at the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding. In 1931 he completed his habilitation in Kiel for the field of agricultural chemistry with a thesis on the phosphoric acid requirements of arable soils. Until he stopped studying agriculture at Kiel University in 1935, he taught there as a private lecturer. In 1936 he took over the management of the test station of the German Potash Indicate in Berlin. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP .

From 1946 Rauterberg worked at the Technical University of Berlin , initially as a research assistant and from 1952 to 1966 as full professor and director of the Institute for Plant Nutrition, Soil Chemistry and Soil Biology. In the center of his research activities were questions of phosphate fertilization . In addition, he was particularly interested in improving agricultural chemical analysis methods. From 1953 to 1973 Rauterberg was co-editor of the " Journal for Plant Nutrition, Fertilization, Soil Science ". He has published most of his research results in this specialist journal.

literature

JC Poggendorff: Biographical-literary hand dictionary of the exact natural sciences (Berlin) Vol. VI, Tl. 3, 1938, p. 2128 u. Vol. VIIa, Tl. 3, 1959, pp. 689-690 (bibliography of his scientific publications)
Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 432

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 405.

personal data
SURNAME	Rauterberg, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klein Wanzleben near Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 1977
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 405.